This is 100% fractals. It's rendered in a program called "Mandelbulb 3D" with some post-production in AfterEffects. The artist has some nice tutorials on his channel!

What's with the weird compositing on the beer label? Looks like the name was comped on after and they didn't manage a good job on the motion tracking.

Actually on second viewing it doesn't match the grain or colour mix of the original and it looks like the motion tracking was done manually by a ninth-grader who took a HS course on Adobe Aftereffects.

Stills with a drone, and aftereffects?

I call shenanigans on the actual shell. No way that would drop to the ground over the couple hundred metres/yards distance provided.

I have no doubt the tank is real, and shot at the camera, but I believe the shell is AfterEffects. Poorly done AfterEffects. It's the same clipart of the shell, moved down and scaled. The image of the shell stays pointed straight on at the camera.

I did a little reading and apparently this is known as the motion aftereffect illusion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motion_aftereffect

It would be very interesting to know how the brain's motion adaptation feature works normally. I bet it's the sort of thing that's incredibly useful under normal circumstances.

What? Is this for real? I was sure it was a mash-up of a few bigger movies with self-made material by some aftereffects pro. Seemed like such a straight copy mix'n'match of avatar, starwars and spartacus(tv series).

Thanks for the link. Very interesting, and a good read. I am actually familiar with some of Félix Vallotton's work, and hadn't made the connection. In retrospect it seems almost obvious.

Less obvious again was the fact that he had to make the whole room, then turn out the lights so you couldn't see it! It makes perfect sense, but it wasn't obvious.
>> ^AdrianBlack:

I did a little digging online, and I found an interview with Robert McGuire talking about this piece:
"...Finding the choice of technique took time...In the end we went with traditional hand-drawn animation, then combining this with Flash to ink and clean the drawings. Later, in some cases, we were combining a few techniques. There were all sorts of technical problems that needed to be worked out. Sometimes it was hard getting the software to look integrated. Some backgrounds and objects were created in 3-D. AfterEffects was used to add a blur to the light from the candle."
Very interesting! Here is the rest of the interview if you would like to read it.

I did a little digging online, and I found an interview with Robert McGuire talking about this piece:

"...Finding the choice of technique took time...In the end we went with traditional hand-drawn animation, then combining this with Flash to ink and clean the drawings. Later, in some cases, we were combining a few techniques. There were all sorts of technical problems that needed to be worked out. Sometimes it was hard getting the software to look integrated. Some backgrounds and objects were created in 3-D. AfterEffects was used to add a blur to the light from the candle."

Very interesting! Here is the rest of the interview if you would like to read it.
>> ^oritteropo:

That's quite an interesting look to the film, any idea how they would have achieved it? It looks a bit like a woodblock print in places (like the hands) but other bits look like fairly basic computer graphics.
I assume this isn't an effect you can just turn on in Maya or Photoshop?

>> ^BicycleRepairMan:

>> ^Yogi:
I think given a bit of time I could reach the same correlation with countries the US has attacked and nearly destroyed or has effected extremely negatively. I could prove up to at least the video posters standards that the US military does more for stifling science and general well being of other countries populations than anything else on earth. So to me this is an incredibly simplistic look and conclusion to come to when you're talking about humans and their development throughout history.

You mean like.. Japan?
Alright, so thats 65 years ago, but i mean, Japan was really, really fucked. Before the A-bombs, the destruction level of japanese cities ranged from 50-90% completely destroyed. Every single city. But today Japan is the most technologically advanced nation on earth. It rose from the ashes. so did germany, and Vietnam, and so many other countries that have been bombed to bits, whether its by the US or anyone else. if you want more recent examples, go to Croatia/former Yugoslavia. War is a terrible thing, and yes, the aftereffects are terrible and can last for centuries (just ask any child born near Hiroshima the last 65 years) But it is not sufficient reason to be stuck in the dark ages.


No that's a single event and then they got a chance to build themselves up. That's not like say Haiti who has been terrorized by the US for the last century or Cuba who's been terrorized for the last 50 years. It's not the same Japan vs Iran for example which we have been trying to stomp into the ground through various means for 50 years as well.

To me this is just way to complex the world is too complex. You can say Islam is stunting science if you want but the way he's going about proving it is incomplete.

>> ^Yogi:
I think given a bit of time I could reach the same correlation with countries the US has attacked and nearly destroyed or has effected extremely negatively. I could prove up to at least the video posters standards that the US military does more for stifling science and general well being of other countries populations than anything else on earth. So to me this is an incredibly simplistic look and conclusion to come to when you're talking about humans and their development throughout history.

You mean like.. Japan?

Alright, so thats 65 years ago, but i mean, Japan was really, really fucked. Before the A-bombs, the destruction level of japanese cities ranged from 50-90% completely destroyed. Every single city. But today Japan is the most technologically advanced nation on earth. It rose from the ashes. so did germany, and Vietnam, and so many other countries that have been bombed to bits, whether its by the US or anyone else. if you want more recent examples, go to Croatia/former Yugoslavia. War is a terrible thing, and yes, the aftereffects are terrible and can last for centuries (just ask any child born near Hiroshima the last 65 years) But it is not sufficient reason to be stuck in the dark ages.

The point is that the words on the page were scientific based facts.

Noooooo - the only scientific evidence is that Earth has climate cycles of warming and cooling and that the Earth is currently in a warming cycle. There is no 'scientific evidence' that human activity is causing any of that cycle to take place either positively or negatively. There is more C02 in the atmosphere, but there is no evidence that the C02 is what 'caused' the warming. There is compelling evidence that C02 is an aftereffect of the cycle, not an indicator of it. And historically, there have been periods of time in earth's history when there was far more C02 in the atmosphere. It did not cause 'harm'. The periods of more C02 and warmth have been times when the Earth was the most lush and had the greatest biodiversity. There is no evidence that human C02 emissions have caused the current warm blip. All that exists is inference, and vague correlations which any statistician would call either negligible or non-existent. The AMG movement is political - not scientific - but they need scientists to hype the masses so they pay them massive amounts of money to ignore evidence, make hasty generalizations, and sensational claims. Follow the money, man. Follow the money. This is one of the biggest scams in all of History since indulgences.

>> ^demon_ix:
^ mentality:
One man's colossal waste of time is another man's work of art. The point here wasn't to create cool CGI effects that every kid with AfterEffects can replicate. It wasn't to do something quick and to impress people on VS. It wasn't to get it done fast and move to the next project...
This is a guy with a hobby that made something fun and cool with it. He obviously enjoyed making it, and THAT was the point.
Go tell Usain Bolt he can get to the finish faster in a car, please.


Look, I'm not saying what he achieved isn't art, or it's not cool. I'm saying it's a colossal waste of time because he didn't do anything unique to stop motion animation, and didn't make best use of his time.

Usain Bolt did something unique that you can't replicate with a car: break the record for human running speed. Terrible analogy. It looks like you're the one who's missing the point here.

Again: He could have designed his animation better, to fully show an understanding of the advantages that stop motion animation offers, and in the process do everything you said he accomplished: having fun with a hobby AND produce something truly cool and unique with it.

Sure he had fun making it, but by not achieving something more it's pointless masturbation.

In reply to this comment by demon_ix:
^ mentality:
One man's colossal waste of time is another man's work of art. The point here wasn't to create cool CGI effects that every kid with AfterEffects can replicate. It wasn't to do something quick and to impress people on VS. It wasn't to get it done fast and move to the next project...

This is a guy with a hobby that made something fun and cool with it. He obviously enjoyed making it, and THAT was the point.

Go tell Usain Bolt he can get to the finish faster in a car, please.

Look, I'm not saying what he achieved isn't art, or it's not cool. I'm saying it's a colossal waste of time because he didn't do anything unique to stop motion animation, and didn't make best use of his time.

Usain Bolt did something unique that you can't replicate with a car: break the record for human running speed. Terrible analogy. It looks like you're the one who's missing the point here.

Again: He could have designed his animation better, to fully show an understanding of the advantages that stop motion animation offers, and in the process do everything you said he accomplished: having fun with a hobby AND produce something truly cool and unique with it.

Sure he had fun making it, but by not achieving something more it's pointless masturbation.

^ mentality:
One man's colossal waste of time is another man's work of art. The point here wasn't to create cool CGI effects that every kid with AfterEffects can replicate. It wasn't to do something quick and to impress people on VS. It wasn't to get it done fast and move to the next project...

This is a guy with a hobby that made something fun and cool with it. He obviously enjoyed making it, and THAT was the point.

Go tell Usain Bolt he can get to the finish faster in a car, please.

Wicked photography - if that can be confirmed to be real and not Aftereffected, it gets an upvote and a promote.